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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led-trigger-pattern b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led-trigger-pattern new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8c57d2780 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led-trigger-pattern @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +What: /sys/class/leds/<led>/pattern +Date: September 2018 +KernelVersion: 4.20 +Description: + Specify a software pattern for the LED, that supports altering + the brightness for the specified duration with one software + timer. It can do gradual dimming and step change of brightness. + + The pattern is given by a series of tuples, of brightness and + duration (ms). + + The exact format is described in: + Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-trigger-pattern.txt + +What: /sys/class/leds/<led>/hw_pattern +Date: September 2018 +KernelVersion: 4.20 +Description: + Specify a hardware pattern for the LED, for LED hardware that + supports autonomously controlling brightness over time, according + to some preprogrammed hardware patterns. It deactivates any active + software pattern. + + Since different LED hardware can have different semantics of + hardware patterns, each driver is expected to provide its own + description for the hardware patterns in their documentation + file at Documentation/leds/. + +What: /sys/class/leds/<led>/repeat +Date: September 2018 +KernelVersion: 4.20 +Description: + Specify a pattern repeat number. -1 means repeat indefinitely, + other negative numbers and number 0 are invalid. + + This file will always return the originally written repeat + number. + + It should be noticed that some leds, like EL15203000 may + only support indefinitely patterns, so they always store -1. |